‘Friction’ breaks out between Pima County Sheriffs Chris Nanos and Kashi Patel This comes after the FBI director brought charges against top police officers in the Nancy Guthrie investigation. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche opened up about the matter in an interview with NewsNation on Wednesday, May 6, saying he had heard “reports of friction.”
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Patel said the FBI was “cut out of the investigation” and his team prepared hundreds of agents, resources and a plane in Tucson to fly DNA from Nancy’s home to Quantico for rapid analysis, but Nanos stopped them and opted for a private lab in Florida.
Program broadcast on Tuesday, May 5 Hanging out with Sean HannityPatel sat down with Hannity to discuss the case.
“In the Nancy Guthrie case, I’m frustrated,” Hannity said at one point. “Because I’m hearing from sources that they’re trying to shut you out.”
“They did,” Patel confirmed. “The first 48 hours of anyone’s disappearance are the most critical. Here’s how these cases are handled: This is a state matter. This is a state and local law enforcement matter. What we at the FBI do is say, ‘Hey, we’re here to help. What do you need? What can we do?'”
He added, “For four days, we were excluded from the investigation. When we were finally allowed in, Sean, look what we did. We went in and rang the doorbell.”
Patel claimed that he called Google leadership and told them that Nancy did not have a subscription service to capture all the video data. He asked if he could view the cached data before deleting it.
“That’s why you have this image,” Patel noted, citing stills and video footage of “Porch Guys.” “Because the FBI collaborated with Google to release this image.”
“We could have gotten this data days ago. If we had gone in earlier, we might have gotten more data,” he added.
Patel later said that even though the bureau offered to process the DNA evidence in Nancy’s case, the Pima County Sheriff’s Department first sent it to a laboratory in Florida for processing.
“For this case, I sent hundreds of agents and intelligence officers to Phoenix and Tucson just to be on standby, just to canvass,” Patel said. “I said, ‘We’ll take the DNA.’ Again, it’s a state and local thing, so they decide where to send the DNA.
Hannity said it was a “terrible decision,” to which Patel responded: “Well, that’s for the American public to decide.”
He added, “All we can do is continue to provide support. We’ll analyze it in a few days and maybe get better information or more information. Our lab is better than any other private lab. And we don’t have the opportunity to do that, so I understand everyone’s frustration.”
Kash Patel vs. Chris Nanos: What did the Pima County Sheriff say?
Nanos denies the claimssaying the FBI was involved from day one.
The Pima County Sheriff’s Department shared Nanos’ statement regarding X. “Chief Nanos responded to the scene of the incident and immediately provided local leadership and insight,” the statement read. “A member of the FBI task force was also notified and worked with our personnel on scene. The FBI was immediately notified by our department and the Guthrie family. While the FBI director was not on scene, coordination with the FBI began immediately.”
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The statement added, “Decisions regarding evidence are made at the scene based on operational needs. The Pima County Sheriff’s Department and the FBI’s Quantico Laboratory have worked closely together from the beginning and will continue to collaborate on evidence analysis.”
“We remain committed to conducting a thorough, coordinated and fact-based investigation and will continue to work closely with our federal partners as the process progresses,” it concluded.
Meanwhile, Branch told NewsNation, “The FBI has been working closely with local law enforcement since the date of this incident. And there have been reports of friction; I’ve seen those reports.”
“We’re here to help. The FBI, President Trumpauthorizing and instructing us to do everything we can to help with the investigation,” he added.
